The behavior of honeybees may hold the key to future studies of alcohol addiction, according to new research.
Researchers from the Polish Academy of Sciences observed that when access to the solution was discontinued, the bees exhibited a"marked" increase of consumption of ethanol as well as a slight in crease in mortality, according to the study.The bees would then willingly consume sugar solutions with alcohol concentrations as high as 20% and then display behaviors similar to alcohol-intoxicated humans, including impaired locomotion, foraging and learning, researchers said.
Among the honeybee workers, foragers outside the hive appeared to show the greatest resistance to the detrimental effects of the alcohol, likely due to evolution as the foragers occasionally encounter ethanol in nature, according to the study. Honeybees not only willingly consume alcohol but are predisposed to alcoholism, according to recent research.The results of the study provide new evidence of their suitability as a model for studying alcohol addiction, researchers said. Invertebrate model species are widely used to study alcoholism, according to the study.
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